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What's wrong with the world, mama

People livin' like they ain't got no mamas

I think the whole world's addicted to the drama

Only attracted to the things that'll bring you trauma

Overseas, yeah, we tryin to stop terrorism

But we still got terrorists here livin'

In the USA, the big CIA

The Bloods and the Crips and the KKK

But if you only have love for your own race

Then you only leave space to discriminate

And to discriminate only generates hate

And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah

Badness is what you demonstrate

And that's exactly how anger works and operates

But you gotta have love just to set it straight

Take control of your mind, meditate

Let your soul gravitate to the love

People killin', people dyin'

 Children hurt and you hear them cryin'

 Can you practice what you preach

 Would you turn the other cheek

 Father, Father, Father help us

 Send some guidance from above

 People got me, got me questionin'

Where is the love

It just ain't the same, always unchanged

New ways are strange, is the world the same

If love and peace is so strong

 [Why are there] pieces of love that don't belong

Nations droppin' bombs

Chemical gases fillin' lungs of little ones

 With ongoin' suffering as the youth die young

 So I ask myself what is really going wrong

 So I ask myself really what is really going on

 In this world that we're livin' in people keep on givin' in

Makin wrong decisions, only visions of them dividens

 Not respecting each other, deny thy brother

 The war is going on but the reason's undercover

 The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug

 If you never know truth, then you never know love

 Where's the love James (I don't know)

 Where's the truth James (I don't know), hey

People killin', people dyin'

 Children hurt and you hear them cryin'

 Can you practice what you preach

 Would you turn the other cheek

 Father, Father, Father help us

 Send some guidance from above

 People got me, got me questionin'

 Where is the love, the love, the love

 Where is the love, the love, the love

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder

As I'm getting older, y'all, people gets colder

Most of us only care about money makin'

Selfishness got us followin' the wrong direction

[Wrong information] always shown by the media

Negative images is the main criteria

Infesting the young minds faster than bacteria

Kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema

Yo, whatever happened to the values of humanity

 Whatever happened to the fairness in equality

 Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity

 Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity

 That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under

 That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down

 There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under

I gotta keep my faith alive until love is found

People killin', people dyin'

 Children hurt and you hear them cryin'

 Can you practice what you preach

 Would you turn the other cheek

 Father, Father, Father help us

 Send some guidance from above

 People got me, got me questionin'

 Where is the love, the love, the love

 Where is the love, the love, the love

 The love, the love

 Where is the love, Manchester, the love, oi oi